DomOct 29, 201947 minGrosser and Coffin Lid Ride Out This short story originally appeared in the 2018 fantasy anthology "It's a Living", a collection of short stories based on the everyday lives of the denizens...
DomJun 4, 20192 min‘Chernobyl’, Culture Wars and 21st Century TruthChernobyl, HBOs hit drama is now the highest-rated TV programme on IMDB – no mean feat for a story ostensibly about 1980s Soviet energy politics. I was in my...
DomMay 25, 20193 minComing soon: Timberwolf Another rare blog entry, and a shameless plug. Hey, what did you expect? My new book, ‘Timberwolf’, is out this summer. It’s the Dieselpunk Panzers-and-Sorce...
DomJan 8, 20192 minNew Year, New Stuff Happy New Year. I haven’t had a drink for eight days. That’s all I'm going to say about 2019 in general. However, on the writing front, ‘Timberwolf’ is compl...
DomNov 14, 20181 minADLER HQ SITREP – November 2018Hello. After the release of ‘Dark as Angels’ in September, the autumn has seen me getting stuck into some editing, mainly for Timberwolf (more of which soon)...
DomSep 24, 20184 minThe No-Rules world of 'Bodyguard'So Bodyguard is done. Shaggy, Daphne and Fred pulled the rubber mask off David Budd’s boss, revealing her as a bent copper in super-criminal Luke Aitkens’ po...
DomSep 5, 20183 min'Bodyguard' got me thinking... Bodyguard is the enjoyably silly new Sunday night pot-boiler on the BBC, with Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden. I was talking about it on my Facebook Page, wh...
DomSep 4, 20181 minNew interview on 'Messy Business' with Jason Beech. Jason kindly asked me to talk about something I'd wish I'd written - and smitten as I am with the 'Wolfhound Empire' trilogy, I chose the first book of the s...
DomSep 1, 20182 minDark as Angels - coming September 2018My new novel, ‘Dark as Angels’ is out this month! Here’s the blurb… · Rufus Hooker – trouble-shooter. Bounty-hunter. Private eye. · Speciality – Missing Pers...
DomSep 1, 20182 minAdler HQ SITREP - September 2018Where did that long, hot summer go? Here in the UK it was steamy, but happily it’s almost over (I’m more of a temperate weather person). And while others hav...
DomJun 2, 20183 minAdler HQ SITREP - June 2018Sometimes I write updates just to remind *me* of what I’m doing, let alone anybody else. And, occasionally, I even put them on a blog. I’ve got two books bub...
DomApr 23, 20182 minA hundred-thousand words100,000 words. Whoa. This is a screen-grab from my work-in-progress, a science-fantasy novel called 'Timberwolf'. I've been more or less fallow for about a y...
DomMar 31, 20181 minInterview on 'Messy Business' by Jason BeechJason Beech, who writes Americana so hard-boiled you could break rocks with it, interviewed me on his 'Messy Business' blog. Check it out here and get hold o...
DomMar 15, 20185 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part III) - Fantasy and Science-FictionBig door-stop novels full of aliens, space battles, wizards, monsters and lady-barbarians in chainmail bikinis? Those were the days. I was a proud geek befor...
DomMar 12, 20183 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part II - Historical Fiction)History is a good discipline for any detective - the importance of sources, of conflicting accounts, realising the first allegation is the winner's prerogati...
DomFeb 5, 20185 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part I - The Thrillers) Every writer has books that make up their inspirational source-code, helping shape the stories they want to tell. These books kicked me up the arse and dumpe...